This 12-Year-Old Might Be the Next Taylor Swift

Simon Cowell says so.

America's Got Talent's season 11 premiered just last week and Simon Cowell already predicts the show may have discovered the next Taylor Swift. Those are some ridiculously major shoes to fill, but the judges along with the massive live studio audience gave 12-year-old Grace VanderWaal a standing ovation for her ukulele performance. The potential young star even got judge Howie Mandel to press the golden button — which allowed her to automatically move on straight to the live shows (mind you, judges can only use this option once throughout the entire season).

Grace performed an original song that instantly sounds like it belongs on the radio. Though she sang about nobody knowing her name, there's no denying her star quality. When she first took the stage, Grace revealed her friends actually don't know that she can sing — and we have a feeling like that's going to change big time, especially when she heads to the show's finals in a few weeks.